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  • 2012
  • Chapter

The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
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    Jingpeng Hong

    Jingpeng is a Ph.D. student in Marketing at Harvard Business School. Previously, he received a B.A. in Economics from the National School of Development, Peking University and a M.A. in Social Sciences, Economics from the University of Chicago. His research interests... View Details
    • October 2016
    • Supplement

    Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)

    By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain
    In December 2014, Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for hosts in the city. It was the most comprehensive agreement that Airbnb had with any city in the world. Its final provision read,... View Details
    Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Sharing Economy; Amsterdam; Airbnb; Molly Turner; Regulation; Homesharing; Tourism; Business And Government; Public-private Partnership; Business and Government Relations; Government Administration; Public Sector; City; Urban Development; Tourism Industry; Public Administration Industry; Travel Industry; Netherlands; Europe
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    • Web

    Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

    Associations in the United States and Prussia," Business and Economic History , Second Series, vol. 19 (1990): 133-142. - Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton... View Details
    • 15 Feb 2015
    • News

    Hoping Google’s Lab Is a Rainmaker

    • September 2017
    • Teaching Note

    The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?

    By: Laura Alfaro and Hayley Pallan
    In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Technological Innovation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Globalization; Business and Government Relations
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      Jorge Tamayo

      Jorge Tamayo is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. He teaches the Strategy course in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Tamayo is an applied microeconomist primarily interested in industrial organization and... View Details

        Alberto F. Cavallo

        Alberto Cavallo is the Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a... View Details

          Walter A. Friedman

          Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer.  He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details

          Keywords: advertising; automobiles; automotive; electrical equipment; electronics; information technology industry; marketing industry; railroad; retailing; soft drink
          • 25 May 2010
          • News

          Six Doctoral Candidates Receive Research Awards

          • 15 Jul 2013
          • Research & Ideas

          Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

          Innovation in health care treatment seems to far outpace innovation in health care business management. Just ask President Obama—two weeks ago he delayed enactment of a key... View Details
          Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

            Matthew Rabin

            Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School.

            Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department.  His research... View Details

            • 27 Jun 2005
            • Research & Ideas

            Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

            leadership. Below is the transcript of his talk, "Leadership Styles in the United States: How Different are They from Asia?" The rapid economic development of Asia in... View Details
            Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

              Shai Benjamin Bernstein

              Shai Bernstein is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in both the Corporate Finance group and the Productivity,... View Details

              • 24 Aug 2020
              • Working Paper Summaries

              When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects

              Keywords: by Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani
              • February 2015 (Revised November 2015)
              • Case

              Building an Integrated Biopharma Company: Crucell (A)

              By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Marianne Van Der Steen and Susan S. Harmeling
              By 2009, Crucell had become the largest biopharma company in the Netherlands and a symbol of national pride. The case traces the evolution of the company from a University spin-off into a fully-integrated company. Crucell's success, particularly in the vaccine space,... View Details
              Keywords: Biotechnology; Biopharmacy Company; Licensing; Licensing Agreements In Biopharmacy; Human Cell-line Technology; Vaccine; Healthcare Innovation; Global Health; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Netherlands
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              • 2009
              • Chapter

              Property Rights for Foreign Capital: Sovereign Debt and Private Direct Investment in Times of Crisis

              By: Louis T. Wells
              Keywords: Property; Rights; International Finance; Capital; Sovereign Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Crisis
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              • March 2006
              • Book Review

              Review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies, by Ernesto R. Gantman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.

              By: Rakesh Khurana
              Keywords: Economic Systems; Society; Management; Information
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                Rafael M. Di Tella

                I received my first degree in Economics in 1990 from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University in 1996. After a short stay in Argentina I joined Harvard Business School in July 1997, where I... View Details

                Keywords: broadcasting; state government
                • 16 Nov 2020
                • Research & Ideas

                Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

                Business School. She co-founded and was founding chair and director of the Harvard University-wide Advanced Leadership Initiative. She is author or co-author of 20 books including her most recent, Think... View Details
                Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne